Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — We Are Not So Old. [ARTICLE]

We Are Not So Old.

* Recent studies by Prof. Penck toM Alps, combined with those of Hugs Obermaier, a distinguished pupil jM Penck, in the Pyrenees, have had at effect of considerably shortening the estimate of the length of time that has elapsed since prehistoric man left the marks of his presence in Europe. It now appears that both in the Alps and the Pyrenees there exist contemporary geological records showing four successive periods of alternate advance afid retreat of glaciation. Heretofore it has been considered probable that prehistoric men dwelt in the neighborhood of these mountains during the last two invasions of the ice, but the new evidence is regarded as proving that it was only of the last, or fourth glacial advance that man was a living witness. ====== —===== . y. ....